One more: Gondola PM 818477 Pere Marquette never had any gons numbered this high - this is probably a typo or a mis-entered car number. However, if we drop the first "8," the car number becomes PM

Tom, Bud, Here's a link to a model of a riveted PS1. I just noticed I put the tack boards on backwards! http://www.eldora.net/lyndon/propst/cnw87542.html The first R P Cyc had a article on the CNW

Briefly, NYC's USRA-design all-steel box car production spanned a decade, over which much changed. There were four inside heights, for which I have adopted the following terminology: "Trial" 9'2"

Chris, The daughter that's a agronomist is here (what timing). The short of it is: Farmers work lime into the soil in the fall (to raise the PH) if they use too much the spring planted plants won't

Jack, As you can see from Mont's post coal storage varied also. I have an aerial photo of a town 30 mi. NE of here with the concrete coal bunkers Mont described. My Grandparent's lived next to a

Bud, I wish I knew more about C&NW PS-1 box cars. Someone recently told me that C&NW had a number of riveted PS-1 cars. If you plan for some C&NW cars, it might be best to check the series and go

Bud from the Kadee website, pictures of all their HO D&H cars http://www.kadee.com/ca/4056l.htm Car Built 1952 in orig paint http://www.kadee.com/ca/5248l.htm Car built 1956 (Has 8' door, I realize

Jeff, Thanks for the assist on the two NYC cars - I was afraid that they were both taller variations. And that's why going through the NYC boxcar fleet isn't as easy as it looks... Ben Hom

Schuyler, Thanks for the info and jpegs. My modeling focus is basically the 1955-56 era, so was hoping I could use the dry transfers I had on hand. I felt the circle logo looked better for that era

Quoting englishintroy <englij@...>: So if I understand you correctly, Jeff, it appears that the height of this style of car on the NYC varied all over the pace from 8 ft. 7 in to 9 ft. 4

The prospect of a narrow gauge version of the B&O's M-15 is intriguing, but the data you provide is inconsistent with the possibility. All of the B&O's M-15s had an inside length of 40' plus a few

I think it is more apt to say the lime will "burn" the roots of plants rather than the soil itself. Talk to a gardener about this. Lime is produced by "burning" limestone as has been described

In a message dated 5/22/03 6:48:37 PM, pierre.oliver@... writes: << Gondolas B&O 258094>> This is a B&O Class O-27B, a 50' IL, fishbelly-sided gondola. Sorry, no easy options for

wrote: <snip> Sorry, Ben, but this car would not be accurately represented by the Westerfield kit, which represents the "low" USRA-design cars at 8'7" IH. The number series NYC 147000 - 149999

Shawn, I have a set of SHS-190 open before me. Black lettering covers 1936-1960, but UP medallions are 45" black & white with a white border. Champ HO Decal sets for other era UP medallions are:

Clark, I'm having trouble visualizing what this looked like. For example, did the sheds have roofs? Do you know of any web sites or magazine articles which have a photo of these coal sheds? Or has

I SUPPOSE AGRICULTURAL LIME CAN COME FROM JUST ABOUT ANY QUARRY. IN MICHIGAN THERE IS A LARGE QUARRY THAT SPECIALIZES IN AGRICULTURAL LIME ABOUT 50 MILES NORTH OF GRAND RAPIDS. THEY RUN YEAR ROUND,

CLARK: NOT ALL RURAL COAL YARDS HAD COVERED STORAGE. HERE IN CENTRAL INDIANA SOME WERE COVERED, BUT MANY WERE UNPROTECTED. THE COAL WAS UNLOADED ONTO A CONCRETE SLAB WITH CONCRETE DIVIDERS. I'VE

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/dh/dh.html Scroll down about 60% of the way, look for the C(larence) Tharp photos of "Frt Cars" to see some interesting photos of Freight car parts thanks

I should have done this before: http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/dh/dh19360ajs.jpg http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/dh/dh20150bs.jpg both show "THE BRIDGE LINE . . . " and 19360 is taken in 1967. 20150